White Dwarf 353 Review
The new issue of White Dwarf magazine was delivered to me yesterday so I thought I’d do a bit of a review. Being a subscriber and a long time hobbyist I tend to review them in my head every month anyway. I’ll probably start doing a few reviews of various things – magazines, games, CDs etc.
This issue sees the release of the new Imperial Guard codex for Warhammer 40,000. As you can imagine due to this there is a lot of stuff inside for the Guard, including a massive battle report. Lots of nice shiny new miniatures, but not being a Guard fan it doesn’t tickle my fancy all that much.
There’s also a small section on the new War of the Ring. I’ve noticed lately that Lord of the Rings has gotten less coverage in the magazine, however this month – while still being small, it seems to have been given a few extra pages.
The star of the show though has to be a painting masterclass article by ‘Eavy Metal painter Joe Tomaszewski, who happens to also be and old friend of mine. In the article he describes how he painted the new Games Day Chaos Lord model, and the result is fantastic. It’s nice to see a long painting article too, this baby gets 7 pages, including a page on the theory behind NMM. Anybody who likes their painting should definately give it a read.
All in all I’d have to give it a 7/10, mainly based on the quality painting article.